Dinsmoor Glacier

Dinsmoor Glacier is a glacier of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory. It flows eastward from the Detroit Plateau into the Edgeworth Glacier on Graham Land's Nordenskjöld Coast.

The glacier was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Hope Bay', 1960-61. It was named in association with the names of pioneers of overland mechanical transport grouped in this area; in this case after Charles Dinsmoor, an American engineer, of Warren, Pennsylvania, the inventor in 1886 of the 'endless tracking machine', a forerunner of modern tracked vehicles, which was first made commercially by Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, California, in 1906.

Location

• Location map: 64°22’58"S, 60°5’18"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Dinsmoor Glacier